Bezeugen BLOG

COVID-19 has really thrown a wrench into 2020. But, thankfully, we are now starting to return to normal including getting back out to sharing the Gospel weekly at the Dallas West End transit center.

There is just over a month until the general election. The November mailing will include the popular Jesus is King Gospel tract. Look for it in the mail. We are hosting our First Thursday prayer on October 1st as a time to pray for our nation, leaders and revival. If you can’t make it to one of our planned events, please pray at home, office, or city hall. If you’d like to be included in our list of locations please let us know.

Some people have found they are overstocked on tracts. In this BLOG post we provide some information on how to use up your extra tracts. In addition, you might like to renew your membership for bi-monthly or quarterly mailings. See renew dot tract dot club for more information.

The Bezeugen Ministries is a 501c3 non-profit. All donations are greatly appreciated and are used to share the Gospel and provide the tracts for the Bezeugen Tract Club. Please prayerfully consider a one time or recurring donation. More information on supporting Bezeugen Ministries can be found at http://donate.bezeugen.org/. Requests for additional tracts, bookmarks, door hangers and million dollar bills tracts can also be made through that page.

If you had to describe 2020 in a word what word would you use? Abnormal? Unprecedented? Chaotic? Strange? Unusual? I think the answer is yes, yes, and yes. All of these apply.

When it comes to witnessing, the COVID-19 pandemic really interrupted our normal witnessing schedule. Back in March we didn’t know much about COVID-19. People were hesitant to go out in public. Government mandates prevented gathering. Etc. You know. You lived it to.

Here in North Texas, our favorite local “fishing hole” is the West End Transit center in Dallas. This is a location where the train intersects with the bus routes. So it is usually a hustling bustling place of people coming and going. For more than ten years we have been going there to share the Gospel during our lunch hour a couple of times a week. But, back in March, we stopped going due to COVID-19, social distancing, etc.

We kept monitoring the situation and talking about when to go back to the West End. Finally last month we decided to give it a try. We wondered if people would be out on public transportation. Would they take a tract? Would they want to talk to us? We realized we’d never know until we tried. So Craig and I went, and the reception was good! For the last month we have been going back to our regular schedule and now there are four of us going Monday and Thursday when we are able. We’ve been able to distribute hundreds of tracts, and engage with many people in conversations about eternity!

A friend lives in the greater Cincinnati Area and has told me they have been getting back out to street preaching and he has sent me pictures and video.

So, what about your area? Where can you go to share the Gospel? It seems like the opportunities are arising again. Exercise caution. Social distance. But share the Gospel! Comment below with your experience!

Regardless if there are events or local venues for mass distribution of tracts and lots of conversations, please keep in mind the goal is to share the Gospel “As You Go”. Thank your waitress or cashier and hand them a tract!

Thursday, October 1st 2020, is the last First Thursday before the US election. Please join us in Carrollton, Dallas, or Rockwall for prayer. If you can’t make it to one of these locations, take time to pray at home or your office. If you’d like to host a regular meeting and be listed as a local contact on our monthly emails please contact us.

We like to use the ACTS (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) model of prayer. The following verses are suggested to help guide your time of prayer.

The COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic made it’s way to the United States and Canada in early 2020. We had to make some adjustments to our process of packing the envelopes for the Bezeugen Tract Club. But, despite the pandemic, the tract club mailings have gone out every month. We are extremely thankful for our volunteers who have packed these envelopes so that we can send them out each month. We are back to meeting in person now to pack the envelopes as a group. That is a real blessing as we love the fellowship of the group meeting together to do God’s work!

While we have been able to keep sending the tracts, we also realize that some of our members lives have been literally turned upside down and are not getting out as much as they had been previously. Therefore, some of our members have become overstocked on tracts. If that’s your case, here are some ideas for you:

First, it is now possible to receive the Bezeugen Tract Club monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly. If you select bi-monthly then you’ll receive tracts in January, March, May, July, September, and November. If you select quarterly then you’ll receive the January, April, July, and October mailings. To select bi-weekly or quarterly mailing please renew your membership online and select the frequency you’d like to receive the tracts. Simply go to renew dot tract dot club, that’s http://renew.tract.club/.

Second, you could mail tracts to family and friends. Write a letter to a family member and share a tract with them. If they are not yet a Christian, then simply say something like “I received this card and it made me think of you. Would you read it and let me know your thoughts of it?” If they are a believer, send them 3-5 tracts and ask them to hand them out. Let them know that if they’d like to receive 30 FREE Gospel tracts per month they can enroll online at enroll dot tract dot club – that’s http://enroll.tract.club/.

Third, you can mail them in business reply envelopes. Do you get those credit card applications in the mail? Put a tract in the business reply envelope and send it back.

Finally, share them with others are your church. Most churches have a table in the fellowship hall or near the sanctuary. Ask you pastor if you could put tracts there and encourage people to take them and hand them out.

Welcome to May! Please check out this video introducing the May mailin gof the Bezeugen Tract Club.

 Did you receive your government stimulus check? Did you need it? While we understand that many are in need due to lost jobs, for others the check is an unexpected blessing. If you are working and have all your needs met, then purhaps like some tract club members have done you’d like to pass the blessing along. We have been blown away recently by the generosity of some who have donated a portion of their stimulus check to Bezeugen Ministries.  The Gospel is the answer for all of the worlds problems. So money donated helps to further the Gospel. Please read the rest of this article on the BLOG .

The June mailing of the Bezeugen Tract Club went to the post office today. We’ve had to make some adjustments to our process to account for social distancing. But please thank God in your prayers for all those who helped with the work to get these envelopes packed so they could go in the mail. We are again packing the July envelopes using our modified process of sending the tracts out to individual homes. We hope and pray that our group can meet together again by July so that we can have fellowship together while we complete this task.

Finally, we’d like to invite you to pray. Pray for our nation, leaders and revival. Pray for an end to the pandemic. Pray that during this time people would seek God. Pray that all tracts mailed in the Bezeugen Tract Club will be distributed. Prayer that people will repent and trust in Jesus alone for salvation. Each month on the first Thursday of the month we host prayer meetings. This month it’s virtual. While you shelter in place why not take time to pray. Suggested verses for the ACTS (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgivings and Supplication) model of prayer can be found here .

The Bezeugen Ministries is a 501c3 non-profit. All donations are greatly appreciated and are used to share the Gospel and provide the tracts for the Bezeugen Tract Club. Please prayerfully consider a one time or recurring donation. More information on supporting Bezeugen Ministries can be found at http://donate.bezeugen.org/. Requests for additional tracts, bookmarks, door hangers and million dollar bills tracts can also be made through that page.

Ten years ago on the National Day of Prayer we started meeting monthly for prayer at Carrollton City Hall and HOBI International in Dallas. May 7th we begin our second decade.

Join us at one of our two locations or find a National Day of Prayer location near you.

We intend to use the prayer guide provided by the National Day of Prayer for this months events.

I just finished reading a post on Facebook from a council member in NYC who was angry that the Christian Group Samaritan’s Purse was still serving in Christ name in NYC. I think it was from a couple of days ago but it reminded me how in these times we need to focus on Christ and The Gospel.  Most of us received a stimulus check from the Government. Some people needed that money to just get by for the month and we praise God for providing for you.  Others are still working and did not need the money.  We received a donation check in the mail last week and we saw that donor this weekend at church.  When we thanked him for their families generous donation he responded that they had received this money they did not need and were choosing to give it to places that were focused on the Spread of The Gospel.  That comment really hit me.  How many others are trying to figure out what to do with this money they were given?  If you are in a place where your stimulus check is not needed to keep you afloat consider donating it to an organization that is working to continue to spread the love of Christ and the Gospel in this time.  There are many organizations that are doing so.  
Money donated to Bezeugen is put to good use. For every 3 cents donated one person hears the Gospel.  We have physical tracts that are still going out monthly as well our tracts are online as digital images.  Go to www.bezeugen.org/tracts and you can pick your favorite tract image, download/save it to your device then email, text, upload it to social media etc.  This is a great way to still share the Gospel even if you aren’t getting out of your house.  
We hope and pray that you are staying healthy and safe.  If you have specific prayer request please let us know.  
To donate to Bezeugen please go to donate.bezeugen.org.  

Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. These are definitely unprecidented times for the world, our country and each of us individually. I suspect everyone receiving this is under some form of quarantine or Shelter in Place. While we are used to sharing the Gospel “As You Go”, we are puzzled how to do that when we are not going anywhere.

Well, one day last week, since I am working from home, I was walking around the block when I came across an older Asian couple walking down the street. The woman was distressed about Corona and in broken English asking how many cases of the virus are in Dallas. As I tried to talk with her she got more and more upset about the virus. Finally I said, “don’t worry, God is in control.”  I shared the Gospel with them and they both took tracts. Isn’t it amazing how God used working from home and social distancing to provide the opportunity to share the Gospel!

Happy April! A quick video introducing the April mailing of the Bezeugen Tract Club can be found on YouTube.  You can also access electronic versions of these tracts to share online.

While we realize that everyone is going out much less than normal, there are still opportunities to go out to shop at essential business, pick up food, or intereact with food delivery people. Each of these are opportunities to Share the Gospel. You can also mail tracts to people while you Shelter in Place  or return them in business reply envelopes. Did you know that Bezeugen Ministries also provides electronic versions of many of its Gospel Tracts. You can read more about that  and then share the Gospel online in social media, email and text messages.

The May mailing of the Bezeugen Tract Club is ready to go to the post office. We anticipate mailing it by Wednesday, April 8th so that you’ll have it before the beginning of May.

Finally, we’d like to invite you to pray. Pray for our nation, leaders and revival. Pray for an end to the pandemic. Pray that during this time people would seek God. Pray that all tracts mailed in the Bezeugen Tract Club will be distributed. Prayer that people will repent and trust in Jesus alone for salvation. Each month on the first Thursday of the month we host prayer meetings. This month it’s virtual. While you shelter in place why not take time to pray. Suggested verses for the ACTS (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgivings and Supplication) model of prayer can be found here .

While you Shelter in Place you may like some resources to grow your faith. Keith Dollar has been having daily live worship and prayer on Facebook.  Tract Club member Steve Sanchez preached an awesome message on Sheltering in Place with the Most High. Skip Heitzig has been preaching messages to bring hope during this time on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings. You can find these messages on YouTube ,

The Bezeugen Ministries is a 501c3 non-profit. All donations are greatly appreciated and are used to share the Gospel and provide the tracts for the Bezeugen Tract Club. Please prayerfully consider a one time or recurring donation. More information on supporting Bezeugen Ministries can be found at http://donate.bezeugen.org/. Requests for additional tracts, bookmarks, door hangers and million dollar bills tracts can also be made through that page.

God Bless
Bezeugen Ministries
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While we all Shelter in Place we still have the opportunity to share the Gospel – online! Did you know that Bezeugen Ministries has an extensive collection of online Gospel tracts that you can find on the website at http://www.bezeugen.org/tracts/. When you go to that page you can find a list of tracts. Click the link to view the image. From your phone you can press on the image until “save” or “download” option is displayed. You can then share to your favorite social media, text or email the images to people.

The Coronavirus has created a worldwide pandemic. Probably no one alive has seen anything like this. We read online and hear about the previous pandemics like the Spanish Fly of 1918. Yet across the state, country and world, streets are empty as people “Shelter in Place”. What are we to do about sharing the Gospel?

Yesterday I checked the mail at our apartment complex. There was a piece of junk mail that included a business reply envelope. I put several tracts in the envelope and mailed it back! Someone will receive this along with the gospel. Perhaps you have bills to pay or letters to write. These are great opportunities to share the Gospel by putting a track in the envelope! For more information see post on Facebook.